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“The very cheapness of literature
is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth
reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is
not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and
re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you
can refer to the passages you want in it.”
— John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies
Sesame and Lilies
“Learn to read slow: all other
graces
Will follow in their proper places.”
Will follow in their proper places.”
— William Walker
The Art of Reading
The Art of Reading
“Read me, do not let me
die!
Search the fading letters, finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!”
Search the fading letters, finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Poet and His Book, Stanza 6
The Poet and His Book, Stanza 6
Want to be a Guest Booklister?
Here’s How!
Send me an email saying
you’d like to contribute a booklist!
Too simple?
Well, there are a couple other
requirements: you have to be willing to submit a list of three
to ten titles and authors. The books should be appropriate for
a general audience: no porn, nothing flaunting arcane
mathematical formulae, nothing needing a Ph.D. thesis to
explain it, no wacko conspiracy-theory investigations proving
that Karl Rove is the illegitimate offspring of Pol Pot and
Marilyn Monroe. You have to be willing to exchange email with
me, so I can clear up any fuzzy areas and you can give me
feedback on the proposed webpage.
It helps if there’s a unifying
theme to the booklist, but that’s not required.
It’s more fun for the reader if you
provide personal comments explaining why you’re
recommending a title, but you don’t have to.
It’s more interesting for my
website’s guests if you provide one or two personal
interests that I can build into the webpage beyond the bare
booklist, but I won’t insist on it.
You don’t have to publish the
booklist under your own name. You don’t have to have a
website or blog of your own. You don’t have to know how
to format a webpage, or post to a blog.
By Date
By Guest Booklister
2006
